Fence-post



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FENCE POST.

No. 286,461. Patehted'Oct. 9, 1883.

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- UNITED STATES ATENT rr cr PLINY MGOMBER AND OTIS H. lVIC-OP/IBER, OF MAPLE GROVE, MICHIGAN.

FENCE-POST.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,461, dated October 9, 1883.

Application filcd June 15. 1883. (No model.)

In all "whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that we, PLINY MGOMBER and OTIS H. MOOMBER, of Maple Grove, in the county of Barry and State of Michigamhave inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Fence-Posts and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,which form a partof this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a fence provided with our improved fencepost. Fig. 2 is a side view of the post. Fig.- 3 is a vertical section of the same, and Figs. 4:, 5, 6, and 7 are perspective detail views of the difierent manners of attaching the wires to the post.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts inall the figures.

Ourinvention has relation to metallic fenceposts; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the body of the post, which is flat, tapering slightly toward the top, and tapering toa sharp point toward the lower end. The edges of the upper portion of the post are provided with flanges B, provided with laterallycxtending upwardly-bent lugs or fingers C and D, and the lowemportion of the post, which is intended! to be inserted into the ground, is provided with two longitudinal ribs, E, extending from the central line of the same at right angles to the fiat body of the post, which ribs are tapering toward the lower end in the same manner as the lower-portion of the post. The lugs or fingers O consist of a horizontal portion extending laterally from the flange of the post, and a short vertical upwardly bent portion, and are adapted to receive the fence-wires F, where continuous wires are used in the notch formed between.

the horizontal portion of the lugs, where they r are twisted firmly against the said lugs, as

shown in Fig. 4. The lugs or fingers D consist, likewise, of a latcrally-proj ecting horizontal portion and a vertical upwardly-bent portion; but the upwardly-bent portions of these lugs are grooved around their upper ends, and adapted to receive the wires twisted around them, as shown in Fig. 5. The body of the post has a series of longitudinal slots, H and V I, andthere are beside every alternate slot two perforations, J, one upon each side of said slot and one slightly above the above the other. These slots are used when the wires are fastened to the post, forming separate panels, the ends of the wires from one panel be ing inserted through the slots from one side and bent back through one of the perforations, and the wires from the other panel being in serted through the slots in the same manner from the other side, and their ends being bent in thesamc manner through the holes upon the other side of the slots, as shown in detail in Fig.6. \Vhcn it is desired, furthermore, .to make the fence impenetrable for smaller animals, extra wires may be inserted through the slots I, to one side of each of which slots is a bail, K, tapering toward the lower end, and the ends of these wires are bent at right angles to themselves, and inserted into the space between the bails and the bodyof the post, and pressed down into the said space,

the tapering shape of which will clamp the wires firmly, holding them in place.

Where metallic bands are used in making the fence, they may either be inserted in the lugs D or they may be passed continuously through the slots H, secured by wire loops L, inserted through the perforations J over the bands, and having their ends twisted upon the other side of the perforations.

7 It will be seen by the foregoing description that this post may be used with many different ways of attaching the wires, which will adapt it particularly to be used where one construction of wire fence stops and another 5 construction commences, as is often the case, either where a place has been fenced at different times and by different persons or where the place adjoins another place, or in similar cases; and as the post by its construction is 100 very strong, and almost any material in the shape of flat or round feneewire may be used with it, it will afford a very desirable and economical post.

Having thus described our invention, we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. The combination of the post having the longitudinal slots, and having the downwardly-tapering bails at one side of the slots, with the Wires having their ends inserted through the slots from both sides, and having their ends inserted into the tapering bails at the other side of the slots, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

2. A fencepost consisting of a fiat body having tapering and flanged lower end, having flanges upon its edges provided with up PLINY MOOMBER. OTIS H. 'MOOMBER.

Vitnesses:

HERBERT M. LEE, J OSEPH M. 7001). 

